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October 18, 2008

W (dubya) again

Ok, despite th fact that this is my second blog about Oliver Stone's W (previous: http://article_dan.posterous.com/w-stands-for-watching) I'm in no way obsessed with this movie - in fact the chances of my even going to see it are a million to one, but the promos and the concept have me, and no mistaking.

Check out the poster below. How much does Josh Brolin look like G W Bush in this picture? Easier to do with half your face hidden, you might argue, but c'mon - that's pretty fucking uncanny. Looks like Brolin has nailed it.

I just wonder how many people in the UK are going to be bothered to fork out the tenner to see this. Doesn't strike me as a box office shoo in...

If you do go see it - tell me how it was.

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July 28, 2008

W stands for... Watching?

Now here's a curious little nugget: conspiracy freak, activist, political polemic-producing Oliver Stone has a new film approaching:

W - the George W Bush Story

Set for release around the time of the real-life departure from High Office of its titular 'hero', I can't help but feel that, while that makes sense from a marketing perspective, it may be jumping the gun a little. I mean, it ain't over 'til it's over…

Sure there's little likelihood of a big hoo-hah in the twilight of his disasterous administration, but you never know. Imagine if they'd done a biopic of JFK focusing on all the Mafia suspicions, the fillandering, the Cuban Missile Crisis, set for release on 12 November 1963… As biopics go it would have felt like there was a little something missing.

NB - this post is not part of plot to assassinate W, so please don't start surveiling the shit out of me.

Crap. Just by typing that I'm probably even HIGHER on the CIA alerts lists. And now I've typed CIA Alerts… Twice!

Arse.

Still - means the ol' blog's seeing SOME kind of traffic, I guess. Big love to my fans in Homeland Security :o)

(Really, really just asking for trouble…)

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